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Political clashes continued in Kuwadzana in the run-up to a by-election to replace Movement for Democratic Change spokesman Learnmore Jongwe with one person believed to have died from severe burns.

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A stay-away organised by the National Constitutional Assembly and the Movement for Democratic Change flopped after the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions refused to endorse it because it did not have the mandate from the grassroots.

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The Movement for Democratic Change was still not aware of the results of the second independent autopsy commissioned by the party on former spokesman Learnmore Jongwe, almost a month after his death.

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Zimbabwe Election Supervisory Network chairman Reginald Matchaba-Hove criticised the government for vote buying and said in the Insiza by-election people had voted for food and not for the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front candidate who won the election.

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Learnmore Jongwe was one of the young charismatic leaders of the Movement for Democratic Change. He had a lot of promise but his meteoric rise into national politics was, however, short-lived. There are 17 cables that mention his name.

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Delta Corporation, one of the heavyweights in the Zimbabwean economy, was reported to be financing its own interests in a Z$10 billion initiative through which it was to loan inputs for the production of maize, sorghum and malting barley to selected farmers.

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Information Minister Jonathan Moyo said Zimbabwe was not a banana republic wanting to please foreign journalists because it had its own impressive professional cadre of journalists who needed work.

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The acting director of Amani Trust Frances Lovemore was arrested on 29 August for violating a section of the Public Order and Security Act which prohibits publication of “falsehoods” prejudicial to the State.

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Police and Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front militants blocked a Movement for Democratic Change rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo on 20 January 2002 as violence intensified in the run-up to the presidential elections.

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The Movement for Democratic Change swept the September 8-9 elections in Bulawayo, winning the mayoral race and all seven city council seats under contention by a landslide.

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